Salisbury

History

Salisbury was founded by John Harvey, who arrived in the province of South Australia from Scotland in 1839 as a young single man, three years after the establishment of government by British settlers. He began selling town allotments in 1848, from land he had purchased along the Little Para River in the previous year. He named the town after Salisbury in Wiltshire, since his new wife came from near Salisbury Plain in England. Salisbury started its life as a service centre for the surrounding wheat and hay farms. Salisbury Post Office opened around March 1850. Salisbury railway station was built in 1857 on the broad-gauge main northern line to Gawler. In 1917 it became a junction where a new line to Long Plains diverged north-west. In 1982, this latter line was converted to standard gauge. Salisbury's first police station was established in 1859. In 1851, the first Methodist Church was erected. Saint Augustine's Catholic Church was completed in March 1857. Saint John's Anglican Church was opened for service in 1865. The area's first school, Salisbury Public School, was completed in 1877. In 1881, Salisbury's town population was between 400 and 500. which centred local governance of the area on the main population centre between Enfield and Gawler, the township of Salisbury.

Most-observed species

• Magpie-lark

  Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  6,233
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  5,820
• Australian Ibis

  Threskiornis molucca (Cuvier, 1829) · Aves
  5,629
• New Holland Honeyeater

  Phylidonyris novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  5,243
• Rainbow Lorikeet

  Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771) · Aves
  5,100
• Pacific Black Duck

  Anas superciliosa J.F.Gmelin, 1789 · Aves
  4,833
• Crested Pigeon

  Ocyphaps lophotes (Temminck, 1822) · Aves
  4,825
• Noisy Miner

  Manorina melanocephala (Latham, 1801) · Aves
  4,672

Most recent

• M 3 — 2022-03-29
  3 km ESE of Macclesfield, Australia
• M 4 — 2022-03-05
  3 km SW of Mount Barker, Australia
• M 3.2 — 2018-08-08
  11 km WNW of Mannum, Australia
• M 3.9 — 2017-02-01
  9 km NW of Murray Bridge, Australia
• M 3.3 — 2011-10-18
  3 km ESE of Hawthorndene, Australia
• M 3.8 — 2010-04-16
  2 km N of Macclesfield, Australia